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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by oezi on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:46PM (#42320586)
This is part of the illusion that it is as if our politicians let anybody in. Not a single politician would welcome even one more asylum seeker.

The immigrants by large are coming from the worst imaginable conditions and fighting their way into Fortress Europe. It is the failure of our societies to help the countries like Syria, Afghanistan, etc to be liveable. We are paying the price for this failure.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:51PM (#42320640)
> Not a single politician would welcome even one more asylum seeker

There were absolutely pro-migration politicians, e.g. Merkel.

> immigrants by large are coming from the worst imaginable conditions and fighting their way into Fortress Europe

Europe continues to have generous refugee obligations, protections and benefits. There also isn’t a robust deportation regime, in part because there isn’t anywhere to legally deport them to. That’s probably what these voters take offence to. (I unfortunately don’t see any non-radical solutions.)

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